Essays
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Grounded: A Journey Into the Landscapes of Our Ancestors
$28.99 Add to cartFrom the author of The Oak Papers comes a beautiful meditation on how to foster a profound and healing spiritual communion with the natural world, exploring how the sacred can be accessed by looking t
- Author: Canton, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0063212145
- Language: English
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Oranges
$18.00 Add to cartA classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually fou
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0374512973
- Language: English
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The Tree
$16.99 Add to cartThe classic meditation on creativity and the natural world
“For years I have carried this book. . . with me on travels to reread, ponder, envy. In prose of classic gravity, precision, and delicacy, Fow
- Author: Fowles, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0061997773
- Language: English
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But Still They Sing
$14.95 Read moreFrom the award-winning author of the North of the Tension Line series comes a timely, heartfelt collection of essays.
In the lyrical prose style familiar to her readers, author J.F. Riordan records a
- Author: Riordan, J. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0825310334
- Language: English
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John Muir: Nature Writings (Loa #92): The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Ess
$40.00 Add to cartKnown as the “Father of the National Parks,” John Muir wrote about the American West with unmatched passion and eloquence–as seen in this stunning, one-volume collection
In a lifetime of exploration,- Series: Library of America #92
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: April 22 1997
- ISBN10: 1883011248
- Language: English
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A Naturalist at Large: The Best Essays of Bernd Heinrich
$26.00 Add to cartSome of the world’s greatest writings on ravens and other birds, insects, trees, elephants, and more, collected for the first time in book form showing why Bernd Heinrich is so beloved for his “passio… [more below]
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0544986830
- Language: English
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Winter: Notes from Montana
$16.99 Add to cartThis book is a classic celebration of winter in a remote Montana valley.
- Author: Bass, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 09 2011
- ISBN10: 0395611504
- Language: English
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Soul of Nowhere
$19.99 Add to cartIncludes black-and-white photographs and pen-and-ink drawings by the author
In Soul of Nowhere, Craig Childs answers the call of fierce places; the more desolate the landscape, the more passionately he
- Author: Childs, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 231
- Publish Date: April 06 2006
- ISBN10: 0316735884
- Language: English
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The Curious Naturalist: Nature’s Everyday Mysteries
$14.95 Add to cartAward-winning author Sy Montgomery takes you on an exploratory adventure through the seasons, into the woods, along the seashore, over frozen lakes, and right outside the back door.
- Author: Montgomery, Sy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0892725109
- Language: English
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Dear Mad’m
$18.95 Add to cartDear Mad’m is the autobiographical story of Stella Walthall Patterson of her experience living alone, after age 80, with her dog Vicki on her mining claim on the Klamath River in the Siskiyou Mountain
- Series: Women of the West
- Author: Patterson, Stella Walthall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: July 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0879611316
- Language: English
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Listening Point
$15.95 Read moreMany people have a special place where they go to experience nature. Perhaps it is a cabin, or a campsite, or a favorite hiking trail. For Sigurd Olson it was a bare glaciated spit of rock in the magn… [more below]
- Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Books (Paperback)
- Author: Olson, Sigurd F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 13 1997
- ISBN10: 081662996X
- Language: English
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Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature (Revised, Expanded)
$25.99 Add to cart“Lively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions,” said David Quammen in the original introduction to Natural Acts
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393333604
- Language: English
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The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence
$24.95 Add to cartExplorations of plant consciousness and human interactions with the natural world.
From apples to ayahuasca, coffee to kurrajong, passionflower to peyote, plants are conscious beings. How they interact… [more below]
- Author: Ryan, John C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0907791875
- Language: English
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Smoke to See By: Knowing Nature in Northern Appalachia
$19.95 Add to cartSmoke to See By is a collection of 21 essays and stories, many never before published, written by award-winning essayist and columnist Ben Moyer. The collection tracks the writer’s quest for intimate
- Author: Moyer, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888190937
- Language: English
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The Pine Barrens
$18.00 Add to cartMost people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks,
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0374514429
- Language: English
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The Survival of the Bark Canoe
$18.00 Add to cartIn Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0374516936
- Language: English
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Where I Lived, and What I Lived for
$14.00 Add to cartThe perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin’s Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history’s most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged wit… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 143037587
- Language: English
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The Paradise Notebooks: 90 Miles Across the Sierra Nevada
$29.95 Add to cartIn The Paradise Notebooks, Richard J. Nevle and Steven Nightingale take us across the spectacular Sierra Nevada mountain range on a journey illuminated by incandescent poetry and fascinating fact.
Over
- Author: Nevle, Richard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501762699
- Language: English
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Nature and Walking
$16.00 Add to cartTogether in one volume, Emerson’s Nature and Thoreau’s Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.
- Series: Concord Library
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0807014192
- Language: English
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Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
$17.99 Add to cart“Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau–and I loved it.”
–J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar” Connors’s] adventures in rad
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Connors, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0061859370
- Language: English
